Jan 25, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift’s Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in...
Jan 9, 2014 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon Today, Nixon TV, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
[youtube https://youtu.be/FGxslFyS07U] January 11, 2014: Author Dr. Will Swift discusses the marriage of President and First Lady Pat Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
Jun 7, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, Library & Foundation, News Media, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
Mar 16, 2013 | News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon’s 101st birthday….but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his “Saint Patrick’s babe born in the morn,” she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and...
Oct 27, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Presidency, Republican Party, The Nixons
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation’s capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His...
Aug 2, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The New Nixon
Parades, flags, ceremonies — a wonderful homecoming no doubt. On August 2, 1960 thousands gathered to celebrate Pat Nixon Day in the state of Nevada — most prominently, Pat Nixon. RN happened to be in the middle of a presidential campaign when this...